Chapter 9

Erik's POV

Eva, Clive, Willow and Jay climbed up the rope leaving us on the small fishing boat.

"So assuming that they get out alive, where should we go next?" I asked.

"I would assume that they girl in the white dress know something about where we should go next. Otherwise I don't think she would have sent the distress call to Valerie and wouldn't have asked us to find her." Fabian told us.

I was still a bit confused on exactly who the girl in the white dress was. But I didn't think anybody knew much about who she was. All we knew was that she wore a white dress.

Then the bottom of the boat started to shake, I looked down expecting a hippocampi but what I saw surprised me. It was Valerie, she was shaking violently. I reached down slowly trying not to shake the boat more than it already. I grabbed Valerie's arm and tried to settle her. It stopped for a little bit and then she started to shake again.

This time I grabbed her and pulled her up until she was sitting on the edge of the boat.

"Valerie, wake up!" I told her desperately. Her eyes fluttered open. I was surprised, it worked!

"What?" She said in a deep raspy voice. Wait…a deep raspy voice?

"Send a distress call to the guys on the boat!" Fabian exclaimed, "Alison, tell Alex!" Fabian then pulled out a little piece of glass from his pocket and started to speak in ancient Greece.

"Πείτε Jay να επανέλθει σύντομα" I translated it to, 'tell Jay to come back soon' it must have worked because then Fabian put the glass fragment back in his pocket and waited.

Alison was still talking into the communicator telling Alexandria that something was wrong with Valerie and it was the same voice that she had heard when she was coming out of her cabin on the first day of camp.

Wait…wasn't the voice Uranus's? I made the connection and immediately shot up making the boat rock. Fabian shoved me down in my seat until Alison was done.

"Guys," I whisper shouted, "the voice is the same one as Alison described!" Alison's eyes got wide as she exclaimed,

"It is!" She looked at Val, who was shaking, on the ground of the ship.

"Does that mean…" I wondered out loud.

"That Uranus is possessing Valerie" Fabian said finishing my thoughts.

We've told the others about it so I hope that meant that they were hurrying up. But all we could do now was sit here and wait for them and try to keep Valerie from throwing us overboard.


Willow's POV

It was a good thing the man didn't see us because while we were right here, the last thing we needed was to get caught.

I followed after Jay who was pushed forward by Clive. The two led the way, weapons out front, looking for any signs of danger. They mustn't have seen anything because they kept on walking past old wooden doors with bolts and locks covering the broken boards.

"Wait," I said, "how will we know which ones the girl?" Clive got mad and covered his head with his hands.

"It will take us all day if we don't know which door she's in. And we definitely don't have all day" Jay said and held up a piece of glass that we all had in our pockets. We had received them from Chiron when we left in order to communicate with each other without using cell phones.

It showed a small message that said, 'tell Jay to come back soon.' We wouldn't have gotten that message unless they were in trouble.

'Okay, so let's find her and get out of here!" I suggested.

"I can help with that" a voice said. I jumped in the air and spun around slapping my ring and I instantly had my sword held in front of me. If you're a demigod and something sneaks up behind you, it usually means trouble. It seems like I have finally had some luck this time.

Instead if a monster there was a boy with light brown spikey hair.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"I'm Sky, son of Zeus. But let's save the chit chat for later and get out of here." He was right if we stand around too long King Minos might catch up with us.

"Not until we find the girl in the white dress" I hissed back.

"Cameron? She's right over here." Sky walked down the hall and stopped at a door. He then held on to the chain and it automatically broke.

"Fake chains" he said looking at us. He then walked in and came out with a girl (Cameron I assume) and then motioned for us to go. We had made it to the top deck and then something hit me. We didn't have enough room on the boat.

I quickly told them about our dilemma and then Cameron said that there was a boat on the other side of the ship we hustled over alongside her and stopped at the edge. Fabian was the first to get in and we all filed in besides him.

"Now how do we get in the water" I asked. But before I was done Fabian had reached over and pulled on a rope. The rope was old and rotting so as soon as he tugged we dropped into the cold water below. I wasn't sure we would make it until I made a snap decision and tried to slow it down.

I thanked the gods that it worked and then let it drop slowly down into the water. Sky was looking a little mad as if he wanted to control the winds and slow the boat down. It didn't matter now though because we were already in the water.

Jay and Sky each grabbed a paddle and started to row the boat along. I was looking out for the rest of the group.

"There!" I shouted and pointed towards another boat. Sure enough it was them…although now that I looked closer, we didn't leave them fighting with Valerie.